Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks (Washington Post) Not that anybody at the Washington Post has ever had a septic tank.

Biden to announce authorization of E15 gasoline in an effort to increase US fuel supply, reduce gas prices  And, quite coincidentally, give a windfall to ethanol producers at the expense of drivers everywhere.

Why ‘eco-conscious’ fashion brands can continue to increase emissions (The Guardian)

Blistering June heat, unprecedented April snow: Climate change makes extreme weather more likely in Oregon (OregonLive)

New York shows the challenges of phasing out fossil fuels, even in blue states (Washington Post)

Our Climate Is Heating Up And We Know How To Stop It. But Will We? (NPR)

US indigenous communities to receive $46m to address global heating (The Guardian)

The race to roll out ‘super-sized’ wind turbines is on (CNBC) Wonder how many birds those will kill.

Climate change ravaged America’s oil capital. Can it lead on clean energy? (L.A. Times) Except that it didn’t.

Earth’s CO2 levels to hit alarming milestone (Axios)

‘I was enjoying a life that was ruining the world’: can therapy treat climate anxiety? (The Guardian)

Are cities ‘spongy’ enough to handle floods? New climate resilience report points to nature for solutions (CNN)

America’s Huge Natural Gas Reserves

Interpreting extreme climate impacts from large ensemble simulations—are they unseen or unrealistic?

NZ helped scrub ‘plant-based’ diets from IPCC climate report

Climate model code is so outdated, MIT starts from scratch

CNN’s long history of pushing disinformation, here are five examples

Economist Robert Reich: Despite growing wages, workers are still “being shafted” by corporate greed (Salon)

17 L.A. gangs have sent out crews to follow and rob city’s wealthiest, LAPD says (L.A. Times) Time to leave.

The best solution to high gas prices: tax the oil companies (CNN) How that will lower, rather than raise, gas prices isn’t exactly clear.

Four lessons from France on how to defend democracy (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin is just chock-full of ideas on how to ‘defend democracy’.

Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden Have Same Problem: Getting the Left to Vote (Daily Beast) That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.

How much energy powers a good life? Less than you’re using, says a new report (NPR)

Far-Right One America News Is in Existential Crisis Amid Mass Exodus (Daily Beast) Not to mention efforts by the Narrative Media to cancel them.

Seattle’s transit system struggles as riders refuse to pay

WashPost’s Wemple Brings the Numbers to Needle Brian Stelter About CNN’s Partisan Filter

MSNBC’s Tur Pushes Gun Control, Fears Increased Police in NYC

California Looks To Reduce Weekly Work Hours To 32

“Sh*t Show”: Triggered Twitter Employees Melt Down Over Elon Musk’s Uncertain Intentions

“Scientist Rebellion” Risking Arrest to Demand Climate Action

CNN+: A Bomb of Epic Proportions

Hayes Politicizes NYC Shooting, Frets SCOTUS Will Approve Concealed Carry

Minneapolis Fed President Goes Woke, Does Political Lobbying, Ignores Inflation

Journalists Have Learned Nothing From the Laptop Fiasco, and They’re Not Sorry

“People Are Afraid” – LA’s Crime Surge Migrates To Wealthy Zip Codes  Because that’s where the money (and the liberal voters) are.

California’s Vanished Dream, by the Numbers

AZ Teachers Union: Parents ‘Drama Queens’ For Demanding Transparency

On the Front Lines of California’s Homeless Debacle

Pharisees Delighted By This New ‘Wokeness’ Thing That Lets Them Constantly Judge And Make Everyone Feel Guilty  Babylon Bee.

California Wants to Regulate Your Bacon. Here’s Why the Supreme Court Should Save It.

ZMan does some detecting.

When Trump famously came down the escalator to declare his candidacy, many assumed it was just a publicity stunt from a guy known for showmanship. Some went a bit far in criticizing it but Trump is one of those guys who can rub some people the wrong way. Once it was clear that he was a serious threat to be nominated, it also became clear that those harsh critics had contracted this new mind virus.

Granted, we did not know it was a mind virus. When Bill Kristol started waving around Hillary Clinton signs, it was just assumed he was bitter. In fact, that was the assumption about all of the neocons who were ranting about Trump. He had torpedoed their guy Jeb Bush so their attacks were just sour grapes. Jonah Goldberg was sure his old lady was going to land a job in the next Republican administration so Trump was a huge blow to his plans.

We now think that Trump triggered the forgotten Trotsky gene. All of those old neoconservatives and their progeny who had been posing as conservatives for fifty years have the Trotsky gene. Trump triggered it and as a result they instinctively returned to their natural state as hyper-violent leftists. At least it was assumed that Trump triggered it. Further evidence suggests that a virus of some sort was in the air that was the real cause of the neocon reaction.

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The Antiplanner has previously written that light rail should be called lie rail because everything its advocates say about it is a lie.

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As of 2021, 27% of people living in Germany have a “migration background”, according to the following article. As far as I can tell, Turks are counted as “Europeans” in this report.

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Our local paper had a news story today about an interesting lawsuit filed against Coastal Carolina University by a former employee. Erika Pomerantz (in white jacket at right) is a psychologist who worked in CCU’s counseling department since 2017. Then, in 2019, she alleges that the university hired a less qualified, less experienced counselor and paid her a higher salary than Ms. Pomerantz. Things started to get complicated when she complained to her superiors about this.

They informed her that the new hire was African-American, and that Ms. Pomerantz “presented as white”. I presume that her boss was shocked when Ms. Pomerantz didn’t accept this explanation. Ms. Pomerantz pointed out that she was a combination of Asian, Latina, and Jamaican – she was not white, and did not appreciate being treated as such. She filed a complaint of racial discrimination to the university’s human resources department. Soon afterward, she was treated even worse than that.

How long will it be before calling someone ‘white’ will be prosecutable as a Hate Crime!

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New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) highlights the areas in Europe and North Africa where the construction of wind turbines or power lines is likely to increase the risk of death for migrating birds.

The dirty little secret of ‘sustainable energy’.

Hydrogen 11 times worse than CO2 for climate, says new report (New Atlas)

UK to finalise world’s first subsidy for clean hydrogen production by end of the year (Recharge)

Electrifying homes to slow climate change: 4 essential reads (The Conversation)

All the new oil and gas projects approved since IPCC report

New Research Shows Estimates of the Carbon Cycle – Vital to Predicting Climate Change – Are Incorrect (SciTechDaily)  My, what a surprise.

Why Global Temperature Doesn’t Matter for Global Crop Yield

NPR Wrongly Blames Climate Change for Suffering Caused by Civil War, Corruption, and Weather

The Elite Think Climate Action is More Important than Your Ability to Pay Your Bills

“Green” Dreams Kill People

Blood on the blades: are thousands of dead bald eagles too high a price to pay for “clean” energy

It’s Time for Transparency of The Embedded Costs of Going “Green”

NYC Mayor Eric Adams announces Juneteenth as a paid city holiday Even though it has nothing to do with New York.

To be anti-racist, don’t confuse character for accountability (Seattle Times)

Houston car dealership employee flips script on attempted robber, sends him running

The View Claims Rubio Is a Race-Traitor for ‘No’ Vote on Jackson

BLM Leaders Call For Renewed Protests This Summer After Finding A Fantastic Beach House For Sale On Zillow  Babylon Bee.

Judge Dismisses Charges Against Parent Opposed to Race-Based Admissions

How Left’s Obsession With Critical Race Theory Hurts Minority Students

Who Suffers the Most From Crime Wave?

New York Lt. Gov. Arrested On Charges Of Bribery, Fraud And Falsification Of Records

Noah: GOP ‘A**holes’ Wanted ‘Free N-Word Passes’ After Jackson Vote  Because of course that’s how he’d react.

Top NY Dem Arrested in Campaign Finance Scheme

Dem Who Portrays Himself as Law Enforcement Advocate Sits on Board That Promotes Prison ‘Alternatives’

The Democratic Party Is Further Left than Al Sharpton

$54M in Chinese gifts donated to UPenn, home of Biden Center

ABC Headline & Tweet Touts Poll Blaming Big Oil and Putin, Not Biden for High Gas Prices

Watch: Former Obama DHS Head Warns Of “Major Influx” Of 18,000 Illegal Immigrants Per Day

8 Varieties of Rancid Pork in Latest Spending Bill

Watchdog Blasts $54M In Chinese Gifts To UPenn After Biden Center Announced

DOJ Election Threat Taskforce Appears To Have ‘Something To Hide’: Watchdog Group President

Biden Infuriates Environmentalists, Oil Refiners By Allowing More Ethanol In Gas To Lower Prices

You Know Things Are Bad When Saudi State TV Mocks Joe Biden

Media Collusion of Hunter Biden/Joe Biden Bombshell Story

As Inflation SKYROCKETS, Nets Finally Voice Skepticism About ‘Putin Price Hike’ Excuse

Joe Biden Holds Annual Performance Reviews Giving Americans An 8.5% Pay Cut  Babylon Bee.

White House adviser: Extending TSA mask mandate ‘absolutely’ still on the table (The Hill)

WHO says it is analysing two new Omicron COVID sub-variants (Reuterrs) Let’s see if we can generate another PANIC!

Covid cases among Washington power brokers put new focus on White House’s protocols for Biden (CNN)

Philly will require masks in indoor public spaces again as COVID-19 cases rise (Philadelphia Inquirer)

China Covid outbreak: Guangzhou closes schools, Shanghai’s new cases soar to a record

Lockdowns Didn’t Work: Blue States Rank Dead Last for COVID Response

Yankee Stadium Employee Fired Over NYC Vaccine Mandate

Here We Go Again: Philadelphia Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate

Sweden’s inconvenient Covid victory

CBS Hypes 4th COVID Shot, Whines Americans Care More About Inflation

Moderna Recalls 764,900 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses After Contamination Found

Skynet Does Dallas: 7-Foot-Tall Robots Are Being Used To Enforce Mask Policy At Love Field Airport

Covid Smell Loss Linked to Damage in Brain, Study Finds

Philly Brings Back Masks as Most Americans Say COVID Crisis Has Passed

76ers Guard Ineligible For Playoff Games In Canada Due To Vax Status

Atlantic writer who called Hunter Biden laptop not ‘interesting’ enough to cover harped on Trump Jr. affairs

The emptiness at the heart of Republicans’ midterm campaign (Washington Post)

Donald Trump Began to ‘Resemble Putin’ As President: Ex-Adviser Fiona Hill (Newsweek)

Ron DeSantis Sparks National Wave of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bills (Newsweek) And a national wave of media mischaracterization.

Former Virginia police officer who stormed US Capitol found guilty on all charges (CNN) Stormed!

Biden’s Sister Blames Trump For Hunter Biden’s Legal Problems

“It’s only a matter of time before the people with guns feel entitled to tell the people without guns what to do. That’s why the Second Amendment is so important.”  — Charlie Kirk

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A leftist magazine co-founded by former President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor Robert Reich urged the federal government to seize control of the fossil fuel industry. Because … climate change.

The American Prospect, of which Reich is founding editor, ran an April 8 article headlined, “Nationalize the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry to Save the Planet.” Leftist economist Robert Pollin argued that “Turning the biggest oil companies over to public ownership would serve several goals at once, including climate resilience.”

This is the same Pollin who co-authored a book with radical philosopher Noam Chomsky pushing a “Global Green New Deal.” In his new article, Pollin exploited the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest climate doom-mongering report to argue: “[W]e must begin advancing far more aggressive climate stabilization solutions than anything that has been undertaken thus far.”

Joel Kotkin.

In 1946, the American author John Gunther described Houston as “mostly ugly and barren, without a single good restaurant and hotels with cockroaches”. The only reasons to live in the city, he claimed, were financial; it was a place “where few people think about anything but money”.

This view was widespread at the time, and has lingered well into the 21st century. Forget Houston. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are the cities most frequently associated with the urban American dream.

Fast forward to today, however, and a new urban renaissance is taking shape — and this time, it’s in the heart of Texas. Never before in American history have two metros in one state — Houston and Dallas-Ft. Worth — been in the nation’s five largest. So much for its cockroaches; at its current rate of growth, Houston could replace Chicago as the nation’s third largest municipality by 2030.

‘Democrats Are Always Two Steps Behind’: NBC Frets Over Dem Failures

California’s High Power Prices Could Derail Liberal EV Dream

A sour and angry America poised to punish Dems this fall (Politico)

Lawmakers pushing WA capital gains tax regardless of judge ruling it unconstitutional

Eric Adams makes plea for mayoral control of NYC schools

Biden expected to announce new gun regulation, eyes new ATF nominee (CNN)

MSNBC’s Phang Uses Debut Weekend to Plug Crist Against ‘Hard-Right’ DeSantis

Los Angeles Prosecutors Decry Disturbing Results of DA George Gascon’s Policies

Antifa Riots In French Cities Because They Didn’t Like The Election Result

Stunning Rise In Chicago Carjackings Leaves Lawmakers Scrambling  Time to leave.

It’s Time to Vax the Chix

After Europe’s latest Covid surge, will the US follow suit? (The Guardian)

The Dirty Little Secrets of Trump’s Pandemic Aid (Daily Beast)

Former Clinton pollster: Biden has lost his ‘likeability’ Clue: Biden never had any.

The Biden family scheme unravels

Where to Put the Illegals

Biden’s Radical Open Borders Policies Prompt Pushback

Why Putin’s invasion failed

More Than 100 Russian Jets Stranded In Dubai After Being Flown There To Escape Sanctions

Zelensky on NATO: ‘no longer interested in their diplomacy’ (The Hill)

Name the eight oligarchs given ‘golden visas’, demands Labour (The Guardian) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Bucha & Truth

China Undercuts Sanctions On Russia: Where Are The “Consequences”?

Russian Oil Continues To Flow To India And China

WINNING: Russian Recruiting Ruined

Ericsson pulls out of Russia ‘indefinitely’ to protest war in Ukraine

Russian Military Says It Successfully Destroyed S-300 Systems Provided By EU State

Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer

Finland Set For NATO Entry As Soon As Summer – Russian Official Warns “Destruction Of Their Country” Coming

Ukraine War Meant To Stop US World Domination, Russia’s Top Diplomat Says

Greene Slams Media Focus on Capitol Riot, Notes It Happened ‘One Time’ (Newsweek)

Cheney rejects report of a dispute among Jan. 6 committee on criminal referral for Trump (The Hill)

Twitter Suspends Clinton Accuser Juanita Broaddrick

‘Black carbon’ threat to Arctic as sea routes open up with global heating (The Guardian)

Environmental group calls for deflating tires of SUVs to combat climate change: target ‘wealthy areas’

‘Swallowing a toad’: Progressives warm to Manchin’s fossil fuel demands to clinch climate package (Politico)

It’s time to break ground on our net-zero future (The Hill)

With air quality worsening, Colorado’s top environmental officials seek millions more to fight pollution (Denver Post)

Advocate promotes fossil fuels for poor nations he once disparaged (Washington Post)

Africa looks to renewables to curb warming, boost economies (Associated Press)

U.S. nuclear electricity generation continues to decline as more reactors retire

New Study: Arctic Was Much Warmer 6000 Years Ago… 90% Of Glaciers, Ice Caps Smaller Than Present Or Absent!

That is, of course, from the viewpoint of remaining Woke.

David Horowitz.

In a previous article, I explained that “progressivism is a criminal mentality.” By progressivism, I mean every political philosophy that regards itself as “revolutionary,” or “transformative,” that describes itself as socialist, communist, fascist or jihadist – or that believes “the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice.” The belief that history is marching towards justice is a cult ideology refuted by the mass genocides of the modern era, which were carried out by Marxists and Nazis. The belief that the world is marching towards justice, that progressives are “on the right side of history” is a delusion that will justify any atrocity and already has.

That is why today’s progressives are advancing the same genocidal agendas that the West defeated in World War II and the Cold War. Led by the 98-member “Progressive Caucus” in Congress, and its racist leaders – Jamila Prayapal, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, AOC and Ayanna Presley – progressives are in full-throated support of the 75-year genocidal campaign conducted by the terrorist dictatorships in Gaza and the West Bank.1 The stated goal of Hamas and the Palestine Authority is the destruction of the Jewish state and the expulsion of its Jews. Even Hitler hid his plans for the Final Solution. But Hamas, the PLO and the Iranian mullahs trumpet their goal of ethnically cleansing a conquered Israel and rendering it Judenrein – Jew free. Nor is the hatred of these neo-Nazis confined to the Jews. “Death to America” is the preferred chant of their Iranian missile providers as well.

Rio Tinto investors vote against financial statements in climate protest (The Guardian)

Broadcast meteorologists are taking up the task of communicating the effects of climate change as crisis accelerates (Boston.com)

Energy & Environment — Rich counties behind most ecological damage (The Hill)

The Rise — and Beauty — of the Native Plant (Washington Post)

NYS Senate passes $4.2B budget measure to fund environmental infrastructure

Washington State Enacts 2030 Target For Fossil Fuel Phaseout

NASA scientist arrested at climate change protest

Louisiana environmental justice advocate to receive Notre Dame award (NOLA.com)

Judge Jackson in remarks: I am the dream of the slave (CNN)

Jussie Smollett releases new song claiming innocence weeks after leaving jai

‘Decolonise’ maths by subtracting white male viewpoint, urges Durham University

Kamala, Hello? MSNBC’s Cross Alleges Racist Immigration Policy Favors White Ukrainians

There’s a growing interest in wealth taxes on the super-rich. Here’s why it hasn’t happened (CNBC)

The Age of the Strongman by Gideon Rachman review – democracy muscled out? (The Guardian)

Texas is trampling parents’ rights in its investigations of trans kids (Washington Post)

Ruhle Frets GOP ‘Nonsense’ Deprived America of Knowing Jackson Better

China Insiders Steal Billions From US Investors

College Writer Who Challenged Stelter: He Had ‘No Apology, No Remorse Whatsoever’ for CNN

Shocking Estimates Show Ukraine’s Crop Harvest Could Be Halved

In Re: The Left’s Grooming Gangs

Chinese inmates had hearts or lungs removed during executions, study says

CNN ObamaBots: Barack ‘Pivots’ to Fight Misinformation, NEVER Makes Up Fairy Tales

Longtime Disney Cast Member Speaks Out: ‘We Are Ashamed To Work For This Company’

Florida COVID-19 hospitalizations at pandemic low as cases continue rising due to BA.2 (Palm Beach Post)

Mayo Clinic recommends second COVID booster amid concerns of another surge

Health experts, FDA advisers struggle with COVID booster strategy

Moderna recalls thousands of COVID vaccine doses in Europe

The Anatomy Of Big Pharma’s Political Reach

Pfizer Hired 600 Employees Due To ‘Large Increase Of Adverse Event Reports’: Document

“We Are Starving To Death”: Shanghai Residents Under Lockdown Shout At Visiting Vice Premier  Communist regimes have long history of starving their own people.

Growing Number Of States Changing How They Report COVID-19 Hospitalizations

‘I did that!’: Man arrested after placing Biden decals on gas pump, as fuel anger grows

Border experts predict how bad migrant surge can get after Title 42 is lifted

American Airlines To Offer Bus Service In Place Of Connecting Flights Due To Soaring Gas Prices, Pilot Shortage

Biden Sends Nearly $1 Billion to Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover

Biden’s Regressive Inflation Tax & The Money Illusion

Biden Signs Bill Downgrading Russia’s Trade Status, Paving Way For Tariffs  I don’t know if there’s a Least Favored Nation status, but if there is, Russia will soon have it.

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When I was in college I took a business law class. (I needed an elective and it was in a time slot I could attend.) One of the things I learned about was the “reasonably prudent person” standard. Oversimplified, it states the law should be based upon how reasonable person would have acted or what that person would have foreseen. Boiled down, it holds that a normal person should be able to understand the law. At least that is how my instructor (who was a lawyer and an engineer) explained it to the class. Mind, this was back in the 1970s. Things seemed to have changed since then.

The law has grown so complex the reasonably prudent person now needs an army of specialists to navigate through the tangle that the law has become today: lawyers, accountants, medical benefits advisors, financial advisors. This is good for specialists (especially lawyers) who add little value to society when the rules are simple enough to allow average people to live their lives without requiring specialists to navigate the laws. It is not good for society as a whole, especially if that society has a representative government. The need for specialists to interpret the rules reduces productivity and encourages rent-seeking. An increasing fraction of the economy goes into overhead, while activities that add wealth shrink.

There was a mxim of the Common Law that ‘ignorance of the law is no excuse’, but that arose in a time when the law was merely what a sensible person knew to do and not do. Nowadays, ignorance of the law certianly ought to be an excuse.

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Economists, politicians and business leaders, it seems, have given up on trying to imagine completely different economic systems. But we have not.

And neither has a small group of brainy, visionary science fiction authors: Cory Doctorow (peer production and abundance in Walkaway), Bruce Sterling (nomads + cheap open source technology + reputation servers in Distraction), Neal Stephenson (phyla in The Diamond Age), Peter Watts (tons of insights from biology in the Rifters trilogy), and others.

We organize a meeting of minds where we can learn from each other what future economies might look like. And maybe even how we can help bring them into the world.

Cory Doctorow is a proglodyte, and I’ve never heard of Peter Watts, but I’ll listen to whatever Bruce Sterling or Neal Stephenson have to say on any subject.

Freeberg nails it.

I won’t forget the China Bioweapon, ever, in part because now we know China develops bioweapons. The question remains whether they release them on purpose or by accident, but it’s settled that they develop bioweapons and they lie about them.

Also, I’m not inclined to forget about the conflict I saw paraded in front of me for two solid years. We don’t all agree about how a government works or how it’s supposed to operate. I think we elect leaders who we count on to make good decisions, and when they don’t, they’re accountable for the results. I think they’re like captains obliged to go down with the ship. I think, if there are bad consequences from wrong decisions, and these consequences loom larger for the governed than for those doing the governing, something is broken and it was already broken before the decisions turned out to be bad ones.

“All disinformation comes from either the media or the government. That’s it.”  — ZMan

Paul Graham.

One of the most surprising things I’ve witnessed in my lifetime is the rebirth of the concept of heresy.

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There are an ever-increasing number of opinions you can be fired for. Those doing the firing don’t use the word “heresy” to describe them, but structurally they’re equivalent. Structurally there are two distinctive things about heresy: (1) that it takes priority over the question of truth or falsity, and (2) that it outweighs everything else the speaker has done.

For example, when someone calls a statement “x-ist,” they’re also implicitly saying that this is the end of the discussion. They do not, having said this, go on to consider whether the statement is true or not. Using such labels is the conversational equivalent of signalling an exception. That’s one of the reasons they’re used: to end a discussion.

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Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces.

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The UK has created a new visa for High Potential Individuals. Under the HPI visa any graduate from a top university as defined by “in the top 50 of at least two of the following three ranking systems: (1) Times Higher Education World University Rankings, (2) Quacquarelli Symonds, (3) The Academic Ranking of World Universities” will be allowed to stay in the UK for two (BA, MA) or three years (PhD). Moreover, a job or sponsor is not required and spouses and dependents are also included.

The US is slowly–very slowly–working towards something similar.

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Now, there may be perfectly sensible reasons why one might prefer Ukrainians over Arabs or Africans — the former know how to use toilet paper, for example, and are far less likely to rape little kids in their host country. And unlike the standard-issue culture-enrichers, they’re probably eager to learn German as soon as possible. Nor will they be inclined to torch churches for being dens of blasphemy against Allah.

But those are aspects of migration that simply may not be publicly discussed in Germany. Diversity is our strength! Anyone who prefers Ukrainians over Somalis is a bigoted xenophobic racist Islamophobe, and probably a homophobe and transphobe to boot.

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More and more security threats remain despite deportation decisions.

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British outfit First Light Fusion claims it has achieved nuclear fusion with an approach that could provide cheap, clean power.

Rather than rely on expensive lasers, complicated optical gear, and magnetic fields, as some fusion reactor designs do, First Light’s equipment instead shoots a tungsten projectile out of a gas-powered gun at a target dropped into a chamber.

We’re told that, in a fully working reactor, this high-speed projectile will hit the moving target, which contains a small deuterium fuel capsule that implodes in the impact. This rapid implosion causes the fuel’s atoms to fuse, which releases a pulse of energy.

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Watching the “historic” ceremony for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson I could not help recall the woman who should have been the first black woman on the Supreme Court – Judge Janice Rogers Brown.

Unfortunately, Judge Brown’s nomination was scuttled by then-Senator Joe Biden (FJB).

It took a two-year fight to get her approved to the DC Court of Appeals. Then in 2005, when Justice O’Conner retired, Senator Biden warned President George W. Bush that if he nominated the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, he would filibuster and kill her nomination.

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A woman who was bedridden for 18 months because she fainted every time she stood up is now walking long distances again, thanks to a spinal cord stimulator.

Her doctors at Switzerland’s NeuroRestore research center have published a case study on her successful treatment in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Two GOP senators chose to disrespect Ketanji Brown Jackson. And it’s a bad look (CNN)

What Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sisterlocks mean to Black women (Washington Post) World War Hair.

Good will for Mayor Eric Adams fading as New Yorkers fear woke empty suit

‘The View’s’ Ana Navarro calls Warnock, Booker ‘the two African American senators,’ forgets Scott He’s Republican, so he’s Not Really Black.

Clarence Thomas Receives Invite To Celebration Of First Black Supreme Court Justice  Babylon Bee.

Cross Labels GOP Senators As Jackson’s ‘Basic Ass’ ‘Intellectual Inferiors

CNN’s Louis: Jackson’s GOP Critics Are Against Civil Rights ‘Progress’

Stanford prof calls cops on Berkeley prof who exposed her $5K/hr consulting fee

Extinction Rebellion vows fossil fuels protest will ‘grind London to a halt’ (The Guardian) And they’re all about places grinding to a halt.

Visualizing the scale of the carbon removal problem (The Verge)

Hydrogen ‘twice as powerful a greenhouse gas as thought before’: UK government study (Recharge)

Climate bill accelerating Maryland’s shift from fossil fuels set to become law after Hogan withholds expected veto (Baltimore Sun ) Hogan’s no hero.

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has already reached a new deforestation record this year (CNN)

In the race to slow warming, the chorus for cutting methane grows louder (Washington Post)

Nationalize the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry to Save the Planet (The American Prospect)

50 years ago, the future of solar energy looked bright (ScienceNews)

Democrat presses EPA administrator on climate rule pace: ‘How long do you think you have?’ (The Hill)

As Climate Fears Mount, Some Are Relocating Within the US (Wired ‘Science’)

Trump Appointees Are Undermining Jan. 6 Prosecutions — And Our Justice System (Politico) In the Narrative Media, ‘justice system’ means ‘enforcing the Narrative’.

Trump Is Backing ‘Crazy’ Candidates, Going to Lose in 2022: GOP Governor (Newsweek) For sufficiently Narrative values of ‘GOP governor’.

Trump Says Putin ‘Overplayed His Hand’ After Praising Him as ‘Genius’ (Newsweek)s

Trump Org. can keep Bronx golf course license after NYC tried to cancel it post-January 6, judge rules

White House tells agencies to delay vaccine mandate after court win (Washington Post)

This major long COVID symptom happens 3 to 6 months later (Deseret News)

The good and bad news about the current Covid-19 wave’ (V0x)

In Washington’s Covid-19 outbreak, new variants flout old ‘close contact’ rule (CNN)

Over 5,000 Previously Unknown Viruses Have Been Discovered Lurking in The Oceans (ScienceAlert)

Why hasn’t my daughter caught COVID? 2 factors likely protect her — and maybe you too (NPR)

It Was The Lockdowns, Not The Pandemic That Created The Havoc

The week in whoppers: NY Times’ scaremongering, Eric Adams’ anti-science and more

These laws tie law enforcement’s hands behind their backs (CNN) Minions of the Narrative object to ‘constitutional carry’ laws.

Critics blast Obama’s Russia claims; Intel operatives won’t admit they were wrong on Hunter Biden laptop

Soros family quietly bankrolls committees supporting ‘defund the police’ candidates

‘Window dressing’: Cop unions, Adams rip Hochul budget bail fixes

Disney corporate president says next generation ‘queerer,’ company must ‘get with it’

Enforcer of China’s Brutal National Security Law Poised to Rule Hong Kong

“Gary Is Just Making Up Random #s” – San Francisco Homeless Officials Caught Lying About Fabricated Data

Stop Biden and the Democrats’ War on Charter Schools

With Roe in the Balance, Blue States Push for Abortion on Demand

Disinformation, American style

NY Times Podcast Host: Twitter Doesn’t ‘Censor’ People  Sure, we believe that.

The 2020 election is still in the news

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A couple recent episodes of the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard featured Starfleet crew members traveling back in time to present day to beat up U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, free a busload of illegal immigrants on their way to be deported, and lecture that racism just “took off a hood and put on a suit” in the early 21st Century.

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I have always wondered why nobody ever built a graphical programming lanuage (i.e. a language where, rather than coding in words, one dropped symbols on a ‘coding surface’ and connected them with symbols representing what you could do, such as branches and loops). The SQL Server Integration Services design tool does this to a certain degree, but only at a very high level.